EDIT:Late November 2009, after the pc had been in work for 2 years I felt it was time for some serious renewing.. Clean some dust, cut some plastic, bend some metal, cut and solder some wires, replace some parts and get more storage.

This new version is found on page 2, posted Wed Mar 17, 2010 and later.New pics up Sep 22, 2010.

After several weeks of reading, planning, thinking, buying, driving, waiting, lapping, cutting, drilling, bleeding, soldering and lots of blood, sweat and tears I can finally present my new workstation and file-server. It's not yet completed, but here's an preview. It's V.0.8Beta. The previous Betas was a closed invitational only

What two parts are you still waiting for? And did you run into any major troubles while building?

Thank you. No, nothing I would call problem, but lot of research of what parts to use and planning how to do it.

Here's a preview of one of the main part missing:

quest_for_silence wrote:

How have you made the intake front grill?

I didn't know what to use for the grill, but planned to go to Ikea and buy a office trashcan or something like that when I remembered that I had some old hifi speakers in the basement. It's the speakers front

It's actually no screws or anything that holds it now, It's very solid, but maybe I will use some screws later.

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Then a pre v. 2.0 picture with all the harddrives installed. The lenghts of the powercables and the numbers of connectors was just perfect! I had to add only one custommade powercable. Without the Sata cables installed you can hardly see that there are 9 harddrives!

Last some pictures of version 2.0. The pc is much nicer in real life, blame the camera and the person behind the camera..

I still have som details to finish and 2 small modifications so there will be an v. 2.5 or v. 3.0

Btw, thank you for this great forum and inspiration like the projects from Wibla, The.Jackal, Konnetikut, falcon26 etc

I welcome any comments, what do you think?

Pre V. 2.0

Version 2.0

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First I installed Xp and after several hours of formating and updating Xp with all the hotfixes, drivers and rebooting I downloaded a file from a manufactores official website what contained a virus! So all the hours for nothing. Have a antivirus program, but better safe than sorry so will format and reinstall everthing.. Argh..

I have because of the Raidcontroller and its Ram bought a UPS, Powerware 5110 1000VA.

Frontpicture with custom fan, leds and fancontroller:

I have spent much time testing different Leds and resistors to get the Leds not to bright. It's very nice, but of course it's no real practical use I guess.

Inside, very few differences from v. 2.0. Just added 3 fanheaders and the cable for the Leds from the Raid-controller. Don't forget that there's lots of cables, E-Sata, Usb, Sata, power, audio, cable for leds, fans etc.

Again many cables and cable ties, but the panel is no problem to get back on:

Able to check the fans Rpm

I'm extremely happy with the pc. Have not been able to test it so much yet, but for me it's very fast and quiet. And heavy..
I have not overclocked it and will probably not yet. I just need a very stable pc, the Quad is already a overkill for my use. It will mostly be controlled by Remote Desktop.
Btw, it took approx 32 hours to initialize the Raid6 and then several hours to format the 3TB drive..

As always, I love to get some comments and feel free to ask any questions.

I was taking a fast look through this thread as I'm going to bed soon. But what I saw from it, it was among the cleanest cable management I'd ever seen especially the red s-ata cables! Why do you use 8 harddrives? and what do you think of the buzz whining acpects of the hx620?

Very nice rig! like your hd suspension almost looks cleaner then the Solo!

I was taking a fast look through this thread as I'm going to bed soon. But what I saw from it, it was among the cleanest cable management I'd ever seen especially the red s-ata cables! Why do you use 8 harddrives? and what do you think of the buzz whining acpects of the hx620?

Very nice rig! like your hd suspension almost looks cleaner then the Solo!

Panter- did you mount a fan at the front of the P182, at the bottom? I mean in front of the lower hard drive cage, presumably, blowing across the 4 drives mounted at the bottom.

I'm building a rig with a P182, it's going to have 4 drives and I've been going back and forth as to how to lay them into the P182....all four at the bottom, 2 in the bottom, 2 in the middle...some number in 5.25 bays... etc.

Curious if you added a fan at the front of the 182 to compliment the fan that lives in between that bay and the PSU assuming such a mounting is possible without really going nuts with the Dremel

jedimaster1138, there is no fan in front of the lower hard drive cage, just the one in between. I saw it maybe could be possible to fit a fan in front, but I did not try or gave it very much attention. I guess the closed "tunnell" with the fan and the Psu-fan will create a good airflow.

question, whats that thing you used to mount your hdd in the 5.25" bays? I have 1 IDE hdd but I want to move it away because I think its blocking airflow for my video card. So its either ditch the drive or move it up.

PS, your post was the first post I saw in this forum and it inspired me to run my cables behind my case too ahah. Considering if I should cut holes in the case too. Only stupid thing is that my seasonic s12 power cable is too short so I can't run it behind the case.

zorrt, it's O-rings plumbers use. 75 mm. I think it's not used in new installations anymore, but plumbers kan order them for repair of old systems.
It's very stable and others have uses this for years without the rubber to break.

Nice to think I inspired someone. I got much of my inspiration from other prosject at this forum.

Turas, sure. Just pay me well..

Nick Geraedts, I made a custom cable with a connector attached to the Led pins on the Raid card. Actually very easy, but I spent some time to built the connector and test the cable. The hardest part was to find the correct leds and resistors so the leds did not shine to bright.

Nick Geraedts, I made a custom cable with a connector attached to the Led pins on the Raid card. Actually very easy, but I spent some time to built the connector and test the cable. The hardest part was to find the correct leds and resistors so the leds did not shine to bright.

Would that happen to be the black sleeved cable running under the RAID card? I was thinking of doing something similar with my setup, but haven't got around to it yet.

Nick Geraedts, I made a custom cable with a connector attached to the Led pins on the Raid card. Actually very easy, but I spent some time to built the connector and test the cable. The hardest part was to find the correct leds and resistors so the leds did not shine to bright.

Would that happen to be the black sleeved cable running under the RAID card? I was thinking of doing something similar with my setup, but haven't got around to it yet.

No, that's the front audio cable.
I will try to to take a picture, but it's not much to see..

zorrt, it's O-rings plumbers use. 75 mm. I think it's not used in new installations anymore, but plumbers kan order them for repair of old systems.It's very stable and others have uses this for years without the rubber to break.

I thought it was something like that. I'll have a look around for something like that around. Thanks!

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